Colin Polsky awarded an LTER grant ($20,000) to train students to use fine-scaled imagery of lawns for his work on suburbanization and water.
Colin Polsky awarded, in collaboration with colleagues at the US Forest Service, Arizona State Univ., Florida International Univ., and Indiana Univ., $20k from NSF's LTER program to host two conferences (one at Clark U.) on the topic of methods for integrating social and ecological science analyses of lawn management and associated consequences.
Kelsey Herrington '09 has been named a Mosakowski HERO Fellow. Read more.
Colin Polsky & Gil Pontius receive $11,991 from the National Science Foundation for additional support for their project entitled CNH: Suburbanization, Water Use, Nitrogen Cycling, and Eutrophication in the 21st Century.
Colin Polsky is co-recipient of the 2008 Hodgkins Junior Faculty Research Award.
James Murphy has been appointed to the Editorial Board of The Professional Geographer.
John Rogan given best paper award for Early Career Scholars by the Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing Specialty Group for Remote Sensing: A Comparison of Linear Change Detection Methods for Mapping Multiple Types of Land-Cover Change in California.
Dominik Kulakowski awarded $150,000 NSF grant for Ecology program collaborative research on Wildfire and Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in Subalpine Forests: Cross-Scale Interactions under Varying Climates.
B.L. Turner II elected to inaugural class of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences.
Ron Eastman & Clark Labs, $1.2 million, Moore and Google Foundations, to Develop Early Warning System Technology.
John Rogan, $989.934, Moore Foundation Grant on the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on the Forests of Yucatan (co-PI with Rutgers and ECOSUR).
Colin Polsky & Gil Pontius, $1.4 million, CNH-NSF grant on systems competition, for project entitled Suburbanization, Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling and Eutrophication in the 21st Century.
Karen Frey's article on the potential impact of nitrogen and phosphorus increases off Siberia's coast, in the Journal of Geophysical Research, has been selected by Nature [450 (18): 138] as a must read science article.
Ron Eastman has been appointed as the Landry University Professor.
Karen Frey, NSF grant award for collaborative research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.
Karen Frey, NSF/Arctic Natural Sciences Program grant for Sea Ice Variability and Polynya Formation on Biological Productivity in the Northern Bering Sea.
Jim Murphy, 2007 Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award.
Deborah Martin, Geog.-Reg. Sci.+ Law & Soc. Sci., NSF grant for Legalizing Community: Lawyers and Citizen Activism in Neighborhood Disputes.
Ron Eastman, 2007 UCGIS Research Award for the research contribution to GIScience embodied within the IDRISI software.
John Rogan, 2007-08 Hayden Junior Faculty Fellow for excellence in teaching and scholarship.